Month: September 2008

The next update of my plugin will feature Right to Left Language support and this is done by Kambiz. He did a great job updating all my plugins to support RTL and fixing some minor bugs along the way. Kudos to you Kambiz!

I have not been developing at all besides committing those changes that Kambiz made since my school started on the 22nd August 2008. Hopefully I will have time to finished what I have planned for, for the next update in December 2008 where I will have only 1 month break.

Just to iterate once again, I decided to stopped developing WP-Sticky anymore as WordPress 2.7 will have that feature built-in and hence WP-Sticky 1.31 is the last version.

WordPress 2.7 will also feature comment threading and paging. Comment paging is the feature I have been waiting for!

Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand(). With his help we worked around these problems and are now releasing WordPress 2.6.2. If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade. With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user’s password to a randomly generated password. The randomly generated password is not disclosed to the attacker, so this problem by itself is annoying but not a security exploit. However, this attack coupled with a weakness in the random number seeding in mt_rand() could be used to predict the randomly generated password. Stefan Esser will release details of the complete attack shortly. The attack is difficult to accomplish, but its mere possibility means we recommend upgrading to 2.6.2.